Companies in Asia are growing tired of employees’ broken hearts bleeding into their work the next day and are granting “breakup leave” to allow them time to grieve a lost love.

A Philippine digital advertising agency, IdeaXMachina, has added the leave, an annual dating allowance and up to $3,000 for a wedding to its benefits package, according to Philippine news outlet GMA News and CNN Philippines. IXM even tries to help its employees get back into the dating scene by reimbursing them for dating services such as Tinder and eHarmony.

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IXM CEO and founder Clemente Domingo III wants to foster creativity in his staff and make the workplace “more appealing to millennials,” he told GMA.

Japanese marketing business Hime & Co. offered breakup leave as far back as 2006. According to Reuters, Hime’s plan was adjusted for age, giving employees 30 and older up to three days off for a breakup and younger workers one or two days.

“Women in their 20s can find their next love quickly, but it’s tougher for women in their 30s, and their breakups tend to be more serious,” CEO Miki Hiradate told Reuters in 2008.

Few bosses approve of curling up with a quart of chocolate ice cream in your cubicle, and co-workers probably don’t appreciate quiet sobs at your desk or angry phone calls in the break room.

But the idea hasn’t yet caught on in the U.S., where American companies are less sympathetic and parental leave still isn’t a national standard.

Karen Hopkins, president of the Hopkins Group, a human resources consulting firm in Dallas, said she has never come across an American company implementing such a practice. However, she said more companies are moving toward offering general paid time off, which employees could choose to use to deal with a bad breakup however they see fit.

“They could take their paid time off and soothe their broken heart,” Hopkins said

Some think it might be a good idea for all involved for the recently dumped to take a day off for some heartbreak leave — without needing to fake a cough to call in sick.

Sally Wright, a consultant who has worked with the American Psychotherapy Association, told Forbes in 2010 that “situations involving relationship breakup are every bit as mentally and emotionally taxing as those which are characterized as ‘acceptable’ reasons. In fact, they are often more difficult to deal with.”